Whenever you visit a book
store to buy a book, you normally judge the book superficially by its covers
and the brief content written at the back of the book. In short you study the
face of the book. But what will happen if the reverse happens and the book
studies YOUR face expressions to see whether you deserve to read it. A bit
horrifying it is, isn’t it? Well that dream just got true.
A Dutch artist named Thijs
Biersteker, created a book that incorporates facial recognition system to
decide whether you are worthy enough to read it. A video below demonstrates
shows, how it scans your face expressions and emotions; if you are in very
exciting mood or in distressed mode, it reads that expressions and the book
will lock itself preventing you from reading it in a wrong state of mind.
The working of the book
can be explained like this: You align your face with the book’s in-built
screen, which closely resembles that face of a robot from the movie Metropolis.
A company named Moore created the facial recognition software that scans your
face to study your emotions. If you are quite energetic or excited or dubious
about the book, then it will not open. You must visualize and maintain a very
serious reading expression, demonstrating your focus on the book’s content.
Once you are done with this stage, it will send signals to the Arduino board
and the book will be unlocked for reading.
Biersteker created a
prototype of the book for an event in 2015 of Art Directors club Netherlands.
He explained this idea behind the project was a result of his anxiety feeling
when he searches for new literature. He said that, he was often worried about
his skepticism and judgment getting in his way of amazement. He also wrote on
the project website that ‘Judgment should never hinder relentless enthusiasm of
seeing things for the first time.’
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Although Biersteker doesn’t
have any plans to commercialize the book lock system but it can be helpful the
next time you pick a book from the book store and think, “If this book
will be interesting to read”.